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On the role of magnetic fields in star formation
C. J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle
Magnetic fields are observed in star forming regions. However simulations of the late stages of star formation that do not include magnetic fields provide a good fit to the propert…
Circumbinary discs around merging stellar-mass black holes
Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon, Fu-Guo Xie +1
A circumbinary disc around a pair of merging stellar-mass black holes may be shocked and heated during the recoil of the merged hole, causing a near-simultaneous electromagnetic co…
Warping a protoplanetary disc with a planet on an inclined orbit
Rebecca Nealon, Giovanni Dipierro, Richard Alexander +2
Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for thes…
The galactic rate of second and third generation disc and planet formation
Miriam Hogg, Graham Wynn, Chris Nixon
We investigate the formation of discs within binary systems where at least one component has left the main sequence. In particular we calculate the occurrence rates of systems whic…
Super-Eddington Accretion in Tidal Disruption Events: the Impact of Realistic Fallback Rates on Accretion Rates
Samantha Wu, Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon
After the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole, disrupted stellar debris can fall back to the hole at a rate significantly exceeding its Eddington limit. To understan…
Misaligned Accretion and Jet Production
Andrew King, Chris Nixon
Disc accretion on to a black hole is often misaligned from its spin axis. If the disc maintains a significant magnetic field normal to its local plane, we show that dipole radiatio…
The origin of the structure of large-scale magnetic fields in disc galaxies
C. J. Nixon, T. O. Hands, A. R. King +1
The large-scale magnetic fields observed in spiral disc galaxies are often thought to result from dynamo action in the disc plane. However, the increasing importance of Faraday dep…